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  <h1>Opening Perspectives</h1>
  <p>Perspectives provide combinations of views and editors that are suited to performing a particular set of tasks.
  For example, you would normally open the Debug perspective to debug a Java program.</p>
  <p>To open a new perspective:</p>
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    <li>Click the <b>Open Perspective</b> button <img border="0" src="../images/new_persp.svg" alt=
    "Open Perspective button"> on the shortcut bar on the left side of the Workbench window. (This provides the same
    function as the <b>Window &gt; Perspective &gt; Open Perspective</b> menu on the menu bar.)</li>
    <li>To see a complete list of perspectives, select <b>Other...</b> from the drop-down menu.</li>
    <li>Select the perspective that you want to open.</li>
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  <p>When the perspective opens, the title bar of the window it is in changes to display the name of the perspective.
  In addition, an icon is added to the shortcut bar, allowing you to quickly switch back to that perspective from other
  perspectives in the same window.</p>
  <p>By default, a perspective will open in the same window. If you would rather it opened in a new window, change the
  setting in the <a class="command-link" href=
  'javascript:executeCommand("org.eclipse.ui.window.preferences(preferencePageId=org.eclipse.ui.preferencePages.Perspectives)")'>
  <img src="PLUGINS_ROOT/org.eclipse.help/command_link.svg" alt="command link"> <b>General &gt; Perspectives</b></a>
  preference page.</p>
  <h3 class="related">Related Concepts</h3><a href="../concepts/concepts-4.htm">Perspectives</a>
  <h3 class="related">Related Tasks</h3><a href="tasks-3.htm">Opening views</a><br>
  <a href="tasks-24.htm">Changing where perspectives open</a><br>
  <a href="tasks-31.htm">Specifying the default perspective</a><br>
  <a href="tasks-28.htm">Switching between perspectives</a>
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